RE: wrong video card in my recently purchased computer.
- From: "Blind Melon Chitlin" <buttfish@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:44:50 -0800
Hi,
What is the driver version you are currently using?
I will have look around here to see if I have any old drivers.
Cheers, James
Beyond the black stump, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of jazzpiano
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:33 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: wrong video card in my recently purchased computer.
Hi John again, the address is: www.atti.com. I went to the web site, and
so
help me, could not figure it out. So, I will try your idea and see what
happens.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: wrong video card in my recently purchased computer.
> OK, maybe it is the older driver you'd want then, that being the case
> you'd
> probably have to go to the ATI web site, I honestly don't know the
address
> for that site but you can look on www.google.com and come up with it
and
> they should have older drivers, but if you get an older driver you'll
have
> to get rid of the current one first before you put the other one in.
You
> could start though by going to msconfig, hit the windows key, then r
for
> run, type msconfig, then shift tab once that opens and arrow to start
up
> and
> hit tab once, then arrow down the list and uncheck everything that
says
> ati,
> maybe you're lucky and it's just a utility that you don't need that
loads
> for your video card, I know I had something like that on my old
computer
> with an ATI card and I did that, I disabled everything to do with the
ATI
> card in msconfig under startup and it actually worked out alright. you
> will
> still have the monitor so don't worry about that, it will still work.
> It's
> a thing to try at least.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jazzpiano" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: wrong video card in my recently purchased computer.
>
>
>> Hi John,
>> When I phoned FS today, the guy there said I needed an older driver.
>> I have the newest one and driver. So which driver should I ask for?
>> How to find out
>> for sure? Gateway wouldn't know about that I don't think. May have to
>> check
>> with FS for sure.
>> Jim
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 3:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: wrong video card in my recently purchased computer.
>>
>>
>>> You can't change video cards in a laptop, you can try updating the
>>> driver
>>> though, gateway's site should have updated drivers or ATI's site,
sorry
>>> I
>>> don't know the address but gateway's site would be the first place
I'd
>>> go
>>> to
>>> try to update the driver. I'm very surprised, I know several people
that
>>> have that laptop and have no problem, I don't know if it's offered
with
>>> different video cards or not, usually no but technology these days,
I
>>> can't
>>> keep up with it.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "jazzpiano" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:15 PM
>>> Subject: wrong video card in my recently purchased computer.
>>>
>>>
>>>> So I am completely frustrated.
>>>> I am running XP pro and jaws 6.
>>>> My computer came with an ATI 9700 pro video card, which doesn't
>>>> work correctly with jaws. How in the world do I figure out the
>>>> correct video card to get, and then download it? I was on the FS
>>>> site and couldn't figure out
>>>> where to go to get what I needed. I am about ready to scream here.
If I
>>>> can
>>>> get the correct video card in this computer my problems that I have
>>>> been
>>>> having should end, so any help will be greatly appreciated. I have
the
>>>> gate
>>>> way M 675. Thanks for your help in advance.
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
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